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I I (No Model.) I i I I I I Y K T. S, BARON & W. A. ALLS.

RIBBE'D KNITPILE I I0.

I No 603,164. Patented Apr; 26,- 11898.

PATENT I Erica;

TI-IEODOBF sQEARoNI Aivn WILLGIS A.

INGALLS, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,

ASSIGNORS TO BARON, 'STRAUSdz 00., OF SAME PLACE.

'RIBBED-KNIT:PILEFABRIC.

sPEoIFIoATIon forming part of Letters rateano. 603,164, dated April as, 1898. Application filed January 26, 18 98. Serial No. 667,995. (No model.)

' To aZZ whom it may concern: a i

other suitable threads to afford a lining for such fabric, warm and agreeable to the body of the wearer .of a' garment made of such fabric, and at small'additional expenseas compared with a ribbed-knit fabric without such lining.

The improved fabric is preferably produced on a circular-knitting machine, such as shown and described in Letters Patent No. 597,288, granted to us January 11,1898, the facing or lining loops as produced in said machine constituting a pile which may, if desired, be thereafter napped, sheared, or fleeced by means designed for the purpose.

The invention consists of the ribbed-knit pile fabric hereinafter set forth, and particularly stated in the claim.

In the drawings constituting part of this.

specification and in which like letters of reference designate similar parts, Figure 1 is a planview of a fabric made in accordance with the invention, the threads thereof being shown as widely separated for the sake of clearness; and Fig. 2 is a section of such fabric on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

The body of the improved knit fabric is formed of inner and outer body ribs or wales A and B, respectively, knitted in the usual manner. Upon the inner side or Wearingsurface of the body as thus constructed is formed a lining made up of extra or pile threads 0, which may be of a material the same as or difierent from the material forming the body of the fabric. These pile-threads O are united with the inner wales or ribs A of the fabric by having the portions 0 of the pile-threads lie loosely behind the loops D of said wales or ribs A and intermediate the loops E of courses above and below. The pile-threads O are formed into loops 0 which float over theintermediate outer wales B and between adjacent inner wales A, and thus form 'a pile which covers the outer wales of the fabricon its inner surface and projects above the inner surface of the body of the fabric.

It will be noted that the pile-threads, united with the inner ribs and formed into pileloops, as described, both reinforce the bodythreads of the fabric and protect the ribs on their inner faces. The pile-loops, furthermore, may be easily varied in length and thickness, thus varying the thickness and weight of the fabric. Moreover, inasmuch as the pile-threads lie loosely behind loops D, as described, they may also be made of threads much thicker than the body-threads without detracting from the flexibility, elasticity, or softness of the fabric and without detracting from the smoothness of its finish.

It has heretofore been proposed to tightly interlace fleecing-threads with the meshes of the outer wales of a ribbed-knit fabric; but in such cases only small or slender fleecingthreads, comparatively, could be practically employed, because thick fleecing-threads would cause the outer wales to project over the outer face of the fabric at the points of such interlacing, and thus form bunches or projections which would mar the appearance and finish and value of the fabric. In the present invention, however, it will be seen that quite a thick pile-thread, comparatively, can be successfully used, the parts 0 of such pilethreads lying loosely across the inner ribs A on their outer faces and between the adjacent outer ribs, so that there would be no such bunches or projections such as would detract from the finish and value of the fabric. Moreover, inasmuch as the pile formed by the loops 0 projects above the inner surface of the body-ribs, the pile may be easily fleeced, sheared, or napped without liability of injury to the body of the fabric.

What we claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is v A ribbed-knit fabric having on its inner or wearing surface a pile-facin g formed of extra or pile threads, said extra or pile threads be ing united with the inner Wales or ribs of the fabric and floating over the intermediate outer Wales or ribs, thus forming on the face of the fabric a projecting pile covering the outer Wales, said extra or pile thread being secured to the inner Wales by passing loosely behind the loops of said Wales and lying intermediate the loops of the courses above and below, whereby the pile-threads Will reinforce and protect the body of the fabric,and pile-threads of Various thickness may be employed, and 

